Fox News host Glenn Beck is the media's "fearmonger-in-chief," helping to sow distrust and paranoia about the government through conspiracy theories, says the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL, one of the world's most prominent groups devoted to fighting racism and anti-Semitism, singled out the controversial TV and [...]
By Amanda TerkelFired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the state with steps for a “citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government“:
This billboard replaces one that warned that [...]
Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking out against a possible transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the city. The video ominously warns that the transfer would turn [...]
"Michigan is going to lead a green industrial revolution in our nation," Granholm said. "We'll be a beacon that guides this country along the path …”
“For Michigan, growing a green economy means realizing we can no longer depend on the industries that once were our bedrock,"' [...]
The legislature is still in session, and U of M's annual
economic forecast indicates we've got more hard times ahead. Senior
Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has a suggestion as to how we might get
beyond this.
Here's the good news. Just in case you [...]
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t [...]
Last week’s bargain basement auction of the Pontiac Silverdome is far from the end of the story.
After the 80,000-seat arena was sold for $583,000 — about 1 percent of what it cost to build the stadium in the early 1970s — a [...]
The first time I read about the story of the Hudson Riverkeepers, I was introduced to two important concepts -- the concept of market-based environmental initiatives and also the deep connection between local economies and environmental stewardship. At the heart of it was a man who may be the greatest [...]
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulfide mine near Marquette, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in the western Upper Peninsula, the Lake Superior Mining News reports.
On Nov. 6 Rio Tinto [...]
As shocking as it may seem, Motown may be in for a big win this year: Dewey From Detroit has been nominated for the 2009 Weblog Awards!!!
Dewey From Detroit has been nominated in the following categories:
Best Blog Best New [...]I just want to give a huge thank you to Wendy Day for coming to the event! [...]
Just raw media from what I have so far from various sources. You can do your own analysis and post and I’ll do mine at some point – probably later today.
Interview (from Wendy Day)
My own voice recording of the speech.
Granholm Speaking about the Michigan Promise
Video recording of [...]
I favors a .45.
Late edit explanation: Alan said, “Brother Mouzone favors a Walther PPK380. Omar was the one carrying the .45. He said the Walther tends to jump in the hand.” Whatever. But I admit the error.
[...]Very bad news. Very bad news indeed.
The decade-old battle to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes might be over.
New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the situation [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports that there is evidence that the invasive Asian carp may have already breached an electrical barrier set up in a shipping canal in Chicago in order to keep the incredibly aggressive species from reaching the Great Lakes, where they would likely destroy the ecosystem [...]
A new report from the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics concludes that while we may be nearing the end of the worst decline, job growth in Michigan will continue to be virtually non-existent until 2011 — and it won’t exactly be going like gangbusters after that. The [...]
Dave Camp doesn't usually unleash Teh Crazy. In fact, he's mastered the art of dodging difficult questions and issues so softly that you don't know that the subject has been changed without him actually saying anything worthwhile. It's a skill I think he probably learned from Bill Schuette.
Anyway, that all [...]
Someone at the gym sent me one of the parody videos for the Shake Weight. No links here, as they’re about as difficult to find as Vi@gra spam, and I don’t want to be responsible for offending any of you. But it raises the question of what, exactly, the [...]
Someone the other day was wondering if physical geography was maybe playing a part in whether Pam Byrnes plans to run for a Washtenaw County state Senate seat. Today comes news from a state senate district where geography is definitely a consideration for one of the candidates.
In a WKZO exclusive, [...]
I have received special Permission from the author of a survival guide available from the Secret Information site to reprint excerpts for the Michigan Survival Guide. These include ways which Michiganders can help themselves, their families and their friends realize a more comfortable' [...]
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10 years ago today, The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, at a meeting of the RWDSU Executive Board on November 20, 1999, voted to endorse Debbie Stabenow for the United States Senate from Michigan.
Given the incredible successes of our [...]
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A MEGA Delusion — Gov. Jennifer Granholm repeated a number of false or misleading statements about this state government's policy of picking winners and losers.
Let the Sun Shine In — Almost half of' [...]
Blogging for Michigan quotes a Gongwer report (subscription only) on a new study by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) that concludes that Michigan is among the states with the most regressive tax structures, resulting in the poor and the middle class paying a much higher [...]
FERNDALE– Charles Pugh, the recently elected Detroit City Council President, says he won’t back cuts to police or fire programs, public transportation or cuts to the city’s health department programs dealing with HIV/AIDS.
“Everything else is on the table,” Pugh said.
He said moves to cut services from public safety [...]
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